Here Today . . .

I have a sort of love/hate thing going on with the Today Show. For some reason, I feel compelled to turn it on first thing each morning, but it generally annoys or angers me to the point where I have to turn it off. Lately, I've been noticing they seem to assume that their audience is of the rich and/or snooty variety. I don't know if this is intentional, but it certainly turns me off. Here are two examples - In a segment on "exotic fruits and how to serve them" their resident chef-lady indicated a plate of brightly colored fruit slices and said, "You might not have had a lychee by itself, but everyone's had a lychee martini, of course." No sarcasm or kidding, just the assumption that only a cretin living under a rock wouldn't have at least sampled a lychee martini. They announced an upcoming segment on finding the right style of jeans for your age/body type/style. Cool, I thought, I need to get new jeans soon. Silly me, I assumed that they would say things like "if you have a big belly, buy this cut, not this one." They did a little bit of that, but mostly their tips were 1. Buy expensive jeans (the least expensive pair they showcased was $143) and 2. Have each pair of jeans you buy professionally tailored to fit your unique figure. Oh yeah. That's practical. At that point, you can't even wear them like jeans anymore - I'm not going to the park in pants that cost me $140 BEFORE I got them altered. Well, I'd love to stay and chat, but I have to take these $350 jeans to the tailor and my lychee martini is getting warm.